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Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.

Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,
by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,
becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

The less routine the more life.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Easy come, easy go ... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

None can teach admirably if not loving his task.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..

Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness.

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not by my weakness.

Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

Every sin provokes its punishment.

Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

Man is a living lie
a bitter jest Upon himself
a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Many can argue - not many converse.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching.

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Genius
the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

The less of routine, the more of life.

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.